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emilly ([personal profile] emilly) wrote2007-01-10 04:26 pm

for danny

"Cock was for a long term not only a slang term for penis but also a euphemism for God. Thus in Hamlet Ophelia could pun:
"Young men will do't, if they come to't; By cock, they are to blame.""
Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson, Penguin, 1991.
a book that could use a new edition. Soviet Union! Also, Australians eat cookies, did you know?

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